Election 2005

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Programme of moments to watch on Election Night:
23.30pm Seats begin to declare with Houghton & Washington East, Sunderland North and Sunderland South vying to be the first to announce their results - all safe Labour seats
00.30am Putney declares. A Labour constituency (majority 2,771) and if this goes to the Conservatives it could be very significant.
1.00am Barking - Margaret Hodge is defending a maority of 9,534. Blackburn also declares where Jack Straw is being challenged by a Muslim protest vote.
1.15am Sedgefield, the Prime Minister's constituency, where there is an anti-war candidate, declares.
1.30am Maidenhead where Theresa May faces a nailbiting moment as she discovers whether she has held on to her marginal seat (majority 3,284)
1.45am Sir Malcolm Rifkind should mark his return to Westminster with a win in Kensington and Chelsea (majority 8,771)
2.00am The Conservative candidate Ed Vaizey, will discover whether the defection of the constituency's (Wantage, Oxfordshire) retiring MP Robert Jackson to Labour before the election has made an impact (majority 5,600)
2.30am Wyre Forest declares. Richard Taylor, a doctor and Parliament's sole independent MP, is defending a shock 17,630 majority he won in 2001 on a platform of saving his local hospital.
3.00am Watford - Labour majority 5,555 is statistically one that the Conservatives must win to be a significant force.
Stanley Johnson, the Conservative candidate for Teignbridge, finds out whether he has become the first father to follow his son into Parliament.
3.30am Oliver Letwin, the Shadow Chancellor, learns if he has held his marginal Dorset West seat (1,414 majority)
3.45am Arundel and South Downs, the former seat of Howard Flight - Conservative Deputy Chairman - declares.
4.00am Henley result - BORIS SEAT - also Michael Howard's seat of Folkestone & Hythe (5,907 majority)
Dorset South - Labour's most marginal seat - failure of the Conservatives to capture this seat could be disastrous.
For full listing of all constituencies and timings see here

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87 thoughts on “Election 2005”

Its gonna be a long night on Thursday, isnt it? I expect we declare before midnight, all I can say is God Speed the counters, because I can’t see any sleep happening if I don’t know who’s won…
At least Stanley And Boris will have declared by four…
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I wonder when Aylesbury will declare? Not that I expect any change, since David Lidington (Conservative) has had very comfortable majorities. At least Labour stand no chance in either national or local elections here…

I’ll be in bed, but as the town hall is 3 minutes walk away please, try to keep the noise down.

(As for Vicus and raspberry yoghurt, that just shows how out of touch the left wing really is these days, trying to remove the nation’s favourite strawberry and force us all down the path of raspberry? Pah!)

Right this does it. I’ve had enough of the election. It’s boreing this year. very boring. In fact we need to get radical. Pull down the House Of Commons. Throw all the MPs in to the street. It’s time we evened society up a bit. Send Queenie Liz II in to exile with the rest of her wastefull family and then crown Boris in Westminter Abbey. KING BORIS JOHNSON I. That’ll show all those scumbags who is boss.

Barry Dorran’s has got the nerve to call me boring when he tries to get his gladiatorial combat kink on. But then watching a bunch of Chimps fight over the banana’s could be just what the election needs. I’ll give you 5-1Fav on John Pescott. He’ll win with that mean hook of his:)

If comrade Dorran had read subsection 3, paragraph 4 of the findings of the working committee on “Fruit and dairy products as a sexual aid in the context of the class struggle and the emancipation of the proletariat, 1998”, he would be clear that the stated policy is that anyone is free to choose their own flavour of yoghourt, provided that it does not affect the fundamental rights of other comrades to produce and distribute soft fruit of their choice. The raspberry wing of the “Maoist-Trotskist alliance for the free expression of working class practices” has never felt the need to be judgemental about the opinions of others.

Simon, I think the issue is less the geographical location that determines what time one chooses to retire for the evening, but rather who one would have to spend time with were one to remain up and about.

I am glad to see the correspondents to this site focussing on the important issues at last.

Melissa, this is my favourite ‘alternative’ policy, from the Church of the Militant Elvis – to plaster giant photos of British celebrities, such as Chris Evans, Jonny Vegas, Graham Norton and Ant & Dec, around airports in order to deter ‘undesirable’ foreigners from entering the country.

The first Scottish seat to be declared should be Na h-Eileanan an Iar (the Western Isles, or Outer Hebrides) where Angus McNeil of the SNP (and the beautiful isle of Barra) has a good chance of unseating the pro-war Labour ex-MP Calum MacDonald (of the isle of Lewis). (The fact they come from opposite ends of the archipelago may be significant.)

To add a bit of style and pizzazz the ballot boxes are being collected by helicopter.

In honour of today’s UK General Election (for which polling stations across the country have just opened), I will list some of Tony Blair’s achievements in office, and the manifesto commitments (from 2001) that relate to them.

By this time tomorrow we should know the way the election is going. Boris Johnson’s site actually has a useful guide to the expected times of key announcements (in GMT). One other result to look for is the Finchley and…

I happen to live in a consituancy where our Member of Parliment is rather high profile. Setting aside the general campaigning which, as usual, seems to revolve around Labour and the Conservatives attacking the respective opposition leaders and the Libe…

Dorset South: Missing out on this seat would be no great disaster for Conservatives – Ed Matts completely wrecked his campaign on the first day with his campaign literature gaffe and has been struggling ever since. He may still sneak in if enough Labour voters defect to the Libs Dems. Like me, for example.

Nick: Melissa’s got other irons in the fire, and will be appearing on ITV’s Celebrity Wrestling on Saturday belting Cherie Blair with a ski pole should Boris lose his seat. Luckily, Boris isn’t going to lose his seat, and I look forward to another classic speech (“Let us return to our homes and prepare for breakfast”) from the master.

I want to stay up to watch the election but I can’t because I’ve got my English SAT tomorrow. How inconsiderate of them.
Although I support the Lib Dems in my area I still want Boris to win. Good Luck.

I’ve just been standing in a Conservative committee room
watching the votes spool ever upwards like house prices in
Oxfordshire; I am therefore full of confidence that whatever
happens we are now seeing the end of the Blair premiership.
Even if – which I do not for a moment concede – Tony Blair hangs on
to his job tonight, he will find it increasingly unbearable. Not
only will he face a revived and invigorated Tory party, but
also ranged behind him will be the vengeful spirits of his
backbenchers, consumed with self-loathing for what they
supported in Iraq, and determined to jugulate Mr Tony as soon
as they can. It will not be a pretty sight

The United Kingdom is holding a general election and local elections today. The polls are closed, and the first results are expected to be declared at about 5:30 p.m. CDT. Iain Murray will be live-blogging the election. Writer and Conservative MP Boris…

I put this up yesterday but I’m continually adding to the information. Please let me know if there are any errors! Here are approximate times for all the Scottish constituency declarations, and the top 40 Labour marginals (plus a few others), bas…

The result in sunderland might be flaky, lovely, but that doesn’t mean Labour won’t win. Mine has been a safe labour seat for bleams (say nothing Mac!) but a conservative council won recently for the first time in 20 years. I was amazed to see Stourbridge as a marginal. Discontentment with Labour should have been acted on and had the backing of central office. I’ve seen nothing of the Tory candidate and had only ONE leaflet from both conservative and LibDem.

Sadly, Boz Cat, not everyone seems to have the initiative and vigour of the Johnsons.

On an extreemly trivial note: did anyone see The full Monty tonight? By ‘eck the Johnsons are sittin’ on a fortune!

I have a horrible feeling that my 0730 start is going to be on less than 3 hours sleep. There should be rules against this!

Assuming Boris voted for himself, i can guarantee he gets at least 2 votes. Which, hopefully, will actually be the total votes received for all the rest of the candidates…giving boris a record majority. Hopefully.

When’s he on TV tonight, which channel, and where is he? If i wander into town, can i blag a coffee off him?

He’s just been on BBC with Jeremy Paxman, Ian Hislop and some Labour twit who just steam rollers over everyone.
This election is very important I know, but I get SO fed up with Labour that it really does make me want to either switch off or be very silly. No wonder people just turn away from the whole process.

I attempted to follow all the Scottish seats and the top 40 Labour marginals – entirely on the internet, without a television. Before counting started, I had listed all these seats with approximate declaration times. It was impossible. The declaration …